Back to Management blogBuyouts do better in US states that vote Republican. That’s the conclusion of research by HEC’s Oliver Gottshalg and NYU’s Aviad Pe’er.
Republican views are better aligned with buyout value-creation strategies (such as outsourcing labor, shutting down less efficient units, lower commitment to social responsibility, and deunionization) than Democratic views are.
I’ll file it next to ”Foxes Report Feeling Less Hungry When Hen Houses Left Open”.
Elsewhere:
- The ever-readable Freek Vermeulen on how the human mind is influenced by the way issues are framed – and the knock-on effects on corporate strategy;
- Hairshirtism embraced by Silicon Valley managers – surely it is only a matter of time before a start-up describes itself as “pre-redundancy” rather than “pre-revenue”?
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